Raise rates. The California solution.
So the ‘lucky’ ‘Fornians get to pay a lot more for recycled piss. Ain’t leftism great?
“Raise rates. The California solution.”
Not all situations are the same. In this particular situation and water district they absolutely deserve it for using and wasting too much water considering the limited supplies. For far too many years the Metropolitan water district area has been abusing water like crazy. Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and the Colorado river are EMPTY and the flow is about to stop altogether.
Most of water goes to the southern Ca Los Angeles metropolitan area as a first priority over all the other states in the pact because of their population density. People claim it is mostly for agriculture. This is absolutely false. The fact is there are far far too many Golf Courses, Swimming Pools, Artificial Lakes, Parks, Etc. These along with extremely wasteful habits and practices such as washing cars twice a week needed or not and competing for the greenest lawn have created an unsustainable situation that is now costing other states their fair share too.
Like most liberal ideology they hypocritically operate with the fantasy world assumption that resources are unlimited and endless. They want everyone else to cut back but they refuse to practice it themselves. It really is time for a serious intervention that actually get their attention. And the only real way to do this is to hit them hard in the pocket book so that they will think twice about their wasteful lifestyles.
They are already doing this to us in Az because of the limited sources including the Colorado River. All the other states in the Colorado River Pact are being forced to do the same. Why? So that the Los Angeles basin can have and waste as much as they like as a priority allotment. It is wrong and they do indeed need a hard lesson about supply and demand.
Even worse is the fact that Mexico made a treaty agreement with us for allowed water that we have been breaking for years because none ever gets there past L.A. We legally either owe them water allotment back retroactively or financial compensation because none ever gets there. This cost and situation is a NATIONAL and south western states problem not just a California problem.
If they are not forced to cut back on use, in the end it will cost the federal government and every taxpayer in the country because the L.A area is abusing and wasting so much water. If they didn’t waste so much they would not have to steal so much from everyone else.